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VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS
Brief Local Paragraphs of More or
Less Interest.
PICKED DP BY ENPKER REPORTERS
?
Stories Concerning Folks and Things, J
Some of Which You Know and
Some You Don't Know?Condensed
for Quick Reading.
The Old Time Singing.
"Sure we are all interested in the
old time singing festival to be held at
Woodlawn," said Mr. M. L. Carroll, of
Yorkville, one of the singers yesterday.
"The meeting we had here last year
was a delightful aiTair to all partici,
pants. I enjoyed it thoroughly and
nfhprs did also. 3 am writing to all J
those who participated last year to
come again, and of course we want all
others to come, those who sing and
those who enjoy the singing.
"And of course, people must bring
baskets of good things to eat. That is
an Important feature of the occasion."
Fighting the Weevil.
Got an anonymous letter last week
from a party with a sour temper, who
said that he was tired of seeing so
much in The Yorl.ville Enquirer about
the boll weevil and he wanted the subject
cut out. He went on further to
say that he would like to see some of
us who are talking so much weevil get
out to picking weevils in the hot sun.
Fact is he writes like he was mad.
Well, we do not blame this man
tv.o wmvII in not a nlcasant
IIIUVII. A?IV
subject. It Is no more pleasant to us
than it is to tho fellows who are picking
them, or to the fellows who have
weevils and are not picking them.
Maybe it does no good to talk about
weevils so much. At any rate it is
not pleasant reading to anybody. We
know that thoroughly; but as Ve see
the situation, since we have the weevil
with us, we've got to fight him to the
last ditch. We've got to see whether
we can or we can't, and if we work
hard enough, we will at least learn
something about him, and we will
know whether we want to try him
again next year.
Unexplained Superstition.
Nobody refuses a dollar bill, but
yiay refuse to lake a two-dollar bill.
Tellers' in local banks ;ire authority
for that statement. The two-dollar bill
is an unsought, unwelcome and unwanted
piece of currency.- Some people
believe that two-dollar bills bring
bad luck and hasten to pass them off
on the first comer. Many tear off the
corners of the bills until they become
so mutilated, that the banks redeem
them In new bills. Bankers estimate
ttyit ninety per cent, of the population
have a dislike for two-dollar bills.
The public's distaste for two-dollar
unio <q irrpnt that the treasury de- |
partment has considered doing sway
with them, and stoppipg the issue of
this unpopular denomination.
There are scarcely any new, crisp,
two-dollar billr in circulation. The
first man thati ?ets one of them tears
off the corner * he is the least superstitious
about it, and bankers say
ninety per cent. are. The next man
tears off anotn?>* corner until the miserable
bill is mutilated beyond recognition.
Finally, the branded thing
drifts back to a ban! and is redeemed.
No one knows why people are superstitious
about the two-dollar bill.
They just are. People all want money,
but they don't want it in two-dollar
bills One never heard another wish
for even a million two-dollar bills.
Science of Hypnotism.
When W. I. Faysoux, the wcil known
hypnotist came into the business office
of Tho Yorkvillc Enquirer to arrange
for advertising his show, which is to
come next week, Views and Interviews
took occasion to ask him a few questions
about hypnotism. He was pleased
to give any information he could,
frankly and intelligently.
"One thing I want to know is how
much science there is abuut hypnotism
and how much humbug there is?"
"That," said Mr. Faysoux, "is prob- >
ably one of the commonest questions j
that is ever asked of me on this sub- J
Ject. 1 will say that while there is '
room for faking by fakers, hypnotism
is a scientific proposition. There is a
good deal we know about it without
understanding it, and there is a good
deal about it that we would like to |
know and understand; but don't.
"Any normal man of average intelligence
can acquire all there is to be
known about hypnotism if he will only
devote himself to the study of it; but I
! iU"* u" cr/.t fn 1
can i promise mm jh.- ?_?w ? ,
the bottom of it. I have been Study- j
ins the subject for twenty years and j
while I feel that I know as much as j
the average professional 1 know that I j
have a great deal to learn yet."
"Could you hypnotize mo?"
"Yes, if you are willing to bo hypno- i
tized but otherwise no. If I were '
thrown in close and intimate associa- j
tion with you over a long period. I j
might catch you off your guard and get |
you; but there would be no certainty!
about it. If you would willingly and in
good faith subject yourself to my will |
1 could get you under the influence of
hypnotic power and keep you there j
until I saw proper to let you go; hut
I would have to stay with you and
keep my whole mind t<> you."
"And you can't explain what it is?"
"Xo I cannot explain it; but 1 can
give you a familiar illustration. You
have no doubt had the experience of J
having some one at whom you were I
gazing intensely in a crowded room
turn around and look at you. Well the
principle of hypnotism is involved
here. It does not follow that such a
person will always turn; but the
chances are that such a person is always
aware of somebody's gaze. Many
people school themselves not to turn
under such circumstances for obvious
reasons.. I am sure you understand
what I mean here, and almost everybody
understands."
"I have read in the papers how you
get into an automobile with four
passengers and drive along the streets
over the route previously followed by
that party and hiding a given article
and Continue until you find the article.
Is there any collusion about that experiment?"
"No the experiment is absolutely on
the square. I pick out two or three
men to go and find the article, say a
letter in a post office box. I would
rather have four men in the party
than three. That is because I am more
apt to get the party up to the right
kind of concentration. I instruct the
party to go into an automobile, wind
about as much as they like, go as far
as they please, put a letter in the post
office box and put the key where they
like, just so all four know where it is.
Then I get into the car, bllindfolded and
ask the party to concentrate on the
route they had followed. Usually I can
drive that route with as much precision
as if I had been with the party in
the first instance. No, I can't tell you
how it is done. I turn into cross streets
and follow the trail instinctively. Sometimes
I find myself confused and have
to stop. That is because the four men
in the car have allowed their minds to
get on something else. But when I
get them to thinking of the business in
hand again I am able to go right ahead.
The experiment is always successful.
"Do you give any hypnotic entertainments
next week?"
"No there is nothing of the kind on
the programme at present. I am just
going to give you some good entertainments,
which I think you will like.
If you don't like them, I'll be disappdinled;
but I'll not quarrel. Sometimes
rny show has a splendid run
with everybody pleased and some- j
times tne same snow uucs nut *u ou
well. It Is so with any show. I have
been in the business twenty years and
have long since learned to take the
people as they are rather than as I
would like to have them. Of course, if
they like my show I am better pleased;
but if they don't take on to it, I never
quarrel. No, I am not giving any
hypnotism next week?just six gdod
plays with a lot of worth while specialties
that take splendidly in some
towns and do not take so well in
others."
SICK COSTS IN GERMANY
Social Insurance is Now Facing Hard
Sledding.
Medical treatment costs twenty
times more in Germany today than it
did before the war, declares Dr. Heinrich
Brauns, German minister of labor,
writing in the current number of Reconstruction,
Berlin. Dr. Brauns calls
attention to this increase in connection
with the critical situation which, he
says, prevails in Germany's social insurance.
Although so far the directors of the
sick funds have been successful in
maintaining the payment of the benefits,
the funds are "approaching their
day of fate."
Medicines cost on an average twentyfive
times the pre-war figure, while in
1914 a charge of three marks was
made for a day's hospital treatment,
which now costs 100 marks.
According to the minister's statistics,
16,000,000 employes aie insured under
the German Invalidity Insurance Sys*
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Employes Insurance.
The Sickness Insurance grants to
workmen, domestic servants and clerks
whose annual earnings do not exceed
a certain limit, cash payments and
benefits in kind. The funds responsi- |
hie for the payment of these benefits
are kept up by the contributions of the
insured persons and of the employers.
Accident and invalidity insurances
arc also provided. These, however, as
well as the sickness insurance, arc being
operated today with a great deal 1
of difficulty and highly unsatisfactory
results, owing largely to the depreciation
in the value of the mark.
"It will depend on the value of the
mark and on the labor market," the
minister concludes, "as to whether
the sick, the disabled and the invalids
can be protected against further
misery."
Dead Man Came Back.?Mrs. Mary
Leonard Chartfer, Staunton, Mass.,
walking' on the street with her new
husband, suddenly paused then broke
from him and rushed up tq Edgar
Leonard, supposed resting beneath a
white cross in the American cemetery
at Romagne, France, showered kisses
upon him, then fell in a faint at his
feet. The War Department had reported
Leonard dead. He had been her
husband for 12 happy years before she
tearfully saw him off to France, and
only two months ago she married
Charticr. The widow-bigamist is making
her home with Leonard's mother
and refuses to see the other man. She
hopes the courts can find some way
[ out of her difficulty. The War Department
should give her every assist j
a nee.?Capper's Weekly.
TRAVELING IN BELGIUM
Dr. McConnell Tells of Scenes and
Incidents by the Way.
INTERESTING TRIP ACROSS ATLANTIC
War Torn Territory Still Shows Marks
of the Great Struggle?People Have
Kindly Feeling For Americans?
Passscngcr Rates High But Living is
Cheap on the Other Side.
Correspondence The Yorkvtlle Knqulrer
Antwerp, Belgium, July 13, 1922.?I
have heard a'story of a Scot who J
when he was marching down the aisle
to be married, became extremely nervous
and when the best man asked
"Sandy, have ye lost the ring?" replied
"No, mon, I have lost my enthusiasm."
Never lose your enthusiasm,
when you travel for then there will
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DC many peuy annuyjiiiiico num uu, ?
day. You can see more in Washington
for less money than in any place
in the world, so I first stopped off
there with my wife and boys, (for my
son and a 12-year-old nephew make
up the party) and the National Museum,
the Capitol, the Bureau of Engraving
and Printing, made a good
day of sight-seeing without a cent
spent for fees. So always visit Washington,
for few cities arc so beautiful.
A passport now is required for
travel?it costs $10.00 to get one, then
so much for each country you visit,
$10.00 for Great Britain, $5,00 for
France and $10.00 for Italy?so I was
out $35.00 the very first thing. All
3teamship companies have the same
minimum rates now. You cunnot go
across as a cabin passenger for less
than $125.00 each on up to $2,500.00 for
the special suites on such ships as the
"Majestic." The same passage that
cost me $125.00. I've bad before for
$55.00 and it has been down as low as
$45.00. So you see coming over costs
twice as much as before the war?but
after you get over it costs about half
* 4 ' ? $ #* inn Villi
as mucn as m u-e awivo, i>iV>.<.v> ,
stay in Belgium, France or Germany
where money is cheap.
We sailed on the "Finland" a good
steady slow boat' with some 500
passengers, loaded with sugar and Ford
automobiles. Every berth was filled,
the deck space rather crowded. It is
under the American flag, but is officered
mostly by Englishmen and the crew
was everything, Chinese, Malay, Flemish,
Swedish and what not. About
twenty students were acting as stewards
or waiters. One big follow, f? foot
4 inches, with a little pea-jacket on
was ridiculous as he reached all over
the table with his long arms. He told
me he was one of the football players
from the University of Minnesota. A
lanky Georgia Cracker from tho sand
hills of Georgia was master at arms,
which is ship police.
A ship is the neck of a funnel
through which people must pass- in
crossing the ocean and you see some
funny sights and hear some odd talk.
Our ship had a lot of Germans and
* At ""'w Konl/ luimo n ft or
Austrian jcws uuv? Uv...v
years of absence. They were all excited
and tearful as we pulled into dock
at Antwerp. One Russian, who claimed
he was a musician taking a rest?for
he might have been a fake as he would
not play for us, talked Bolsheviki doctrine
and ran down America until a
newspaper man and myself blessed him
out and then he got indignant and
tried all his arguments on the women.
This newspaper fellow was a good
sport, of English descent, but an
American citizen and lived in Newark, ;
N. J. He came over a poor boy and
had worked himself up and had a wife
and two fine boys and was going to
England for the first time since he
left 23 years before, lie was a Knight
Templar and a Shrlner and when a
pilest aboard told him the Masonic
organization was the most iniquitous
in all the world, and that it had caused
" T ? .... t li,. 1
I lie worm war, I'll*, i iwum^ iw? fur
to fly?and fly it did.
Some, missionaries were aboard
bound for Africa, ono I knew, Mr.
Washburn. Another missionary and |
wife were returning. They have had
IS years in the worst section of Africa.
The ants had eaten up his house, so
lie was taking back with him two big
Swede bricklayers from North Dakota
land he was going to make his buildings
of brick. The Swede and his wife
I were Christian volunteers too. You
J meet some strong characters among
these pioneer missionaries. The natives
in the Congo are rapidly decreasing.
The death Kite far exceeds the
birth rate?a peculiar condition which
will soon thin them out. I wrote
several prescriptions for these workers
to try out.
An Iowa farmer was aboard, or ucr- |
man descent and he was going or. a
visit to Luxemburg'. We called him
"By Gosh" for he ended every sentence
with "by gosh" or something stronger.
He said all Iowa farmers who p;feid
$300.00 to $500.00 per acre for farm
land were broke "by gosh," and that
prices on hogs and cattle changed so
fast that he was not certain whether
he was a rich man or a poor man, "by
gosh."
The Finland was a transport during
| the war and was torpedoed. The tor-!
pedo went completely through the
[front part of the ship killing twenty
1 odd men. but she got back to Brest
I under her own steam.
One of tlie ship's oflicers showed me
a chart of tlie mouth of tlie Knglish
Channel and tli" number of wrecks
lying beneath the water, ran into hun- I
died". The submarines lay in wait for)
tho vessels as they came along and
got large numbers of them. The naval
officers told me that the depth bomb
was tho thing that overcame the German
submarine, they couldin't stand
the nerve strain when they were in
danger of being blown up every
minute.
On the ten day voyage we had only
two clear days, the rest of the time
being cold and rainy. It cleared a
little as we entered Plymouth harbor
in England, a strongly fortified naval
base of over 200,000 people. Some
landed there?then next morning we
touched at Cherbourg, France and more
landed there. The next day we steamed
up through a port of Holland and
landed at Antwerp. Again it was
raining. The whole of the British Isles
and Europe suffered from drought last
year for two months, this year it has
already rained for forty days they tell
me without letting up.
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illltWCip 10 vuv viiuu mtgvot. j/w? v in
the world. Coming next to New York
and London. Here my boys were interested
in the folks wearing wooden
shoes and the big dogs pulling carts.
Antwerp has the largest draft horses
in the world. They are larger than
either the Percherons or Clydesdale
horses and are the property of the
trucking company that docs the heavy
Hauling on the docks. They will
weigh two tons to the pair. When the
Germans captured Antwerp in 1914, the
kaiser, issued special orders to secure
at once the big Antwerp horses. Some
of them escaped by being driven over
the river into Holland, some of those
captured have been returned. I saw
two horses hauling 20 bales of cotton,
and another team hauling enough lager
beer to supply Yorkville for a month.
And speaking of beer, there is plenty
of it at C cents a gallon and plenty of
wine but, no whisky is sold in bars.
Whisky can be bought by the bottle,
but not by the drink and only a limited
amount of that. On the other hand
on our American boat, whisky and all
other drinks were plentiful, but high.
I saw only one man drunk, he was an
American Legion buddy?but there
was plenty of drinking.
Antwerp was shelled a little in 1914,
but not much. Here and there you see
a vacant place in a block, of houses.
The famous cathedral was hit once.
Tho most famous of Ruben's paintings
ace in this church, but they had been
put in the cellar. These painting are
now about 300 years old and are painted
on wood, but are as beautiful as
ever?the "Descent fro mthe Cross" being
the one most frequently copied.
Street car fare costs us two cents,
all the way across the city. Taxi and
carrier fares are cheap. Hotel rates
were low?food plentiful and first class.
Let me recommend the Zoological"
Garden to anyone visiting Antwerp.
There is not a better one in the world,
and few larger. Probably it is because
Belgium owns such a great part of
Africa that enables them to get so
many rare birds and animals. Never
have I seen such tame animals, the
keepers give you peanuts to feed tho
monkeys, etc. and there are two orangou-tangs
which disprove Bryan's arguments
against evolution, they are so
man-like. I saw one twist a straw
rope, make a swing to get in and swing
like a child, until his rope broke.
During the war the elephants died
of starvation?they also had to kill the J
poisonous repines ana nuns unu us cm
during the bombardment, for fear they
would escape; but since the war they
have secured others.
The Belgians are a mixed lot, all
street signs are in three or four
languages. In Antwerp they mostly
speak Flemish, in Brussels 30 miles
away French is mostly used. It is said,
to make a Belgian happy, Just give
him a pair of hip boots, a big pile of
manure and u pitch fork for they are
wonderful gardners. Small fruits like
plums and apricots are plentiful,
apples and pears are high. Cauliflower,
carrots, cabbage and beets,
with peas and beans are bountiful and
cheap. You have plenty of food in
Belgium, well prepared. The people
are cordial and grateful to Americans.
Many pathetic incidents come up in
a war torn country. Many brutal
thiqgs have occurred. I saw the grave
of a little 10 year-old Belgian girl, who
was shot down by a German guard for
handing some food over the fence to a
French prisoner. This was only a few
days before the armistice. In the
Steen museum at Antwerp arc two
posts to which the Belgians were tied
and executed for spying. Most of
these had escaped to England, when
Antwerp was captured, then came i
back to get information in their home
town and were executed. The Germans
put a fence along the HollandBelgian
border to keep the Belgians
from escaping. The wires werp charged
with a high voltage current and
sentries placed also. Some Belgians
escaped by tunneling, others would
push a barrel between the wires mid
then crawl through the barrel. The
execution of civilians will always be a
black mark against the Germans. They
executed over 600 in Dinant, 106
against a stone wall at one time, ]
several of them women and a number J
of children under 10 years of age. To
read the inscriptions and look at their
little photographs is depressing. Ail
the brass chandeliers and the metal
railings on the staircase of our
hotel had been taken away by the fler- ,
mans. Tlis hotel was used as headquar- 1
tors for Hoover during the war relief.
Xext letter will cover Holland, Brussels
and Waterloo.
| John W. McDonnell.
CAMPAIGN OPENS
McConnellsviite Voters Hear Candidates
for Various County Offices.
SMALL CROWD, LITTLE ENTHUSIASM
Eight Legislative Candidates Did Most ,
of The Talking?All Promise Most
Rigid Economy in Government?
Platforms are Largely the Same?
Oher Candidates Spoke Briofly at
Afternon Session.
(By a Staff Correspondent.)
McConnellaville, Aug. 9.?With ap
proximately 150 people in auenaancc,
the York County Democratic Campaign
for 1922 was formally opened in Reuben
McConnell's pasture here today when
the candidates for the several offices
presented their respective claims
to the voters for suffrage. It was a
lively, good natured folk, practically
all of them rts'dents of McConnellsville.
Shortly after 1 o'clock the
meeting was adjourned that the crowd
might partake of a bountiful picnic
dinner, the principal feature of which
was soup and hash prepared by those
masters in the art of cooking soup and
hash, Messrs. Jack Bratton, Bob
Stevenson, YV. R. Harper and Mr. Con
-i~u? fnr. thp
rU (J. 1 Illj Cl&UL caiiuiuuivo iiv* w..~
house of representatives addressed the
voters before dinner while candidates
for probate judge, treasurer and superintendent
of education spoke in the
afternoon. It was a hard matter to
persuade the after dinner speakers to
come to the stand, and as it was, most
of them contented themselves with a
brief announcement of their respective
candidacies. Candidate Ernest W. Guy
who seeks the office of treasurer was
on his native heath today and when he
arose to announce his candidacy he
was greeted with liberal applause including
two yelps. There was apparently
little or no interest in the
other candidates.
S. H. Love, precinct chairman at McConnellsville,
presided over the meeting
here today, the candidates speaking
from a platform built in the
pasture with scats arranged nearby
for the auditors. The meeting wan
opened with prayer offered by Magistrate
E. A. Crawford of Guthricsville
in the absence of Rev. R. C. Wilson of
McConnellsville, who was late in
getting to the meeting. It was the intention
to hold the candidates for the
legislature to 10 minutes each; but It
wound up by each candidate speaking
about as long as ho cared to speak
although some of the candidates said
they did not have sufficient time to
all the matters they cared to
talk about. While a respectful hearing
was given each legislative candidate,
there was no enthusiasm apparent
for any one of them.
Mr. Beamguard.
James E. Beamguard of Clover, former
state senator from York county
who is seeking election to the lower
house of representatives where he has
served eight years expressed his appreciation
to the people of McConnellsville
for the vote given him in former
years. He had made mistakes while a
legislator but they were mistakes of
the head rather than the heart. He
said he was again offering for a seat
in the house at the solicitation of
many voters from practically every
section of the county.
He said that any legislator who sits
in the house of representatives during
the next four or five years had a
man's job before him. There is a feeling
of unrest on the part of people
over the state and the people are cry
ins out because of the burden of taxation
they are carrying. There was in
every nook and corner a cry for economy
in government and for efficiency
in office. While he stands for economy
he would do nothing to cripple
the roads and schools and he does not
believe that tho people of York county
can elect from the eight legislative
candidates four men who would be
willing to cripple the schools and the
roads.
Reiterating his statement that there
was a demand for cconortiy and efficiency
he said that it was now going
to be necessary to have men of brains
in tho legislative halls to look out for
the state.
Declaring there were too many useless
commissions connected with the
state government he said that the
state had drifted into the practice of
creating too many commissions and
clothing thoni with too much authority 1
?in fact sweeping powers. As matters
stand now there is a little army of
state employes classed as inspectors
going over the state on different missions?the
number including inspectors
of hotels and hot-dog stands. "I know
of no other name to call them except
beach combers," said the speaker.
Referring to the work of the "Efficiency
Commission" about which much
has been said in the state political j
campaign, Mr. Eeamguard said that |
while he did not approve the idea of
going out of the state to employ mem- I
hers of this comm'ssion, there was no
doubt of the fact that the work they
had done was "pure gold." Saying
that he had been told of some abuses!
in the county government the candi- |
date thought it the duty of good,
patriotic citizens to meet with the
legislative delegation before the delegation
went to the general asesmbly
for the purpose of making a thorough
investigation of county afTalrs and
suggesting remedial legislation to the
representatives.
Replying to a communication
addressed to each legislative candidate
by the Fort Mill ministerial union of
which Rev. J. W. H. Dyches, D. D., is
chairman, relative to the attitude of
candidates on Sunday sessions of the
legislature, Mr. Beamguard said he
was opposed to such sessions and
[ would voie and work against them.
W. A. Bolin.
Washington A. Bolin of Yorkville,
the second of the legislative candidates
I to be introduced, drew a picture of
conditions that had been existing during
the past two years. "Somebody is
wilfi liy, woefully and maliciously at
fault for conditions as they exist," said
Mr. Bolin. The farmers had been told
to bend forth their best efforts in pro
duction since the world was threatened "j
with famine. The farmers had done
that and had been unable to sell their j
cotton and other products at prices (
that would cover the outlay expended ,
to say nothing1 of profit. "The man ,
who toils dnd digs has suffered most," |
Candidate Bolin went on to say, "and j
the salaried man has not been reduced ]
in income anything in proportion to |
the tiller of the soil. This fact is in
a large measure responsible for the ,
feeling of unrest that prevails over the j
country." ,
He can not promise that if he is |
elected to the legislature that .he will ,
redeem the state but he will promise ,
that if ho is elected he will do his bit |
toward re-adjusting matters. Among |
those laws that he onnosed was "the ,
lynch laws." If a negro is lynched for
an assault his heirs may go into the
courts and sue the county in which
the lynching occurred for $2,000. It
had been done in York county. He
would work for the abolition of that
law.
Mr. Bolin stated his opposition to the
hunting laws, saying he couldn't see
anything worth while In them. "If
you kill a bird and have a hunting
license the bird is as dead as he would
be if you have no license," he saifl.
Negroes, lie declares, think that if they
have a hunting license they have a
right to hunt on any man's land re-,
gardless of whether or not they have
permission from the land owner. In
conclusion the speaker said he was
awar? that it was up to the voters to
/IoaI/Ia. u'hnthm* nr nnt hA whnillfl ronro
sent them. Whatever you decide in '
regard to me, said he, will not only '
satisfy me but please mo.
W. R. Bradford.
W. It. Bradford of Fort Mill who
seeks re-election to the house, re- (
viewed his record as a member of that ,
body for six years. He said he was <
against Sunday sessions of th?~general <
assembly and had refused to attend ,
the legislative session on Sunday in
March. He had also introduced a bill ]
in the house which sought to make it ]
the law to read the Bible in the public ,
schools. He said he had no personal |
ambition to gratify in asking ro-elec- |
tion, hut he wanted to go back because |
he believed he could be of great ser- (
vice to the people by virtue of his long ,
experience. -He read an extract from ,
a statement attributed to Champ Clark
saying that a man should not be sent |
to the legislature to gratify personal (
ambition, but should be sent there for ,
service. He said he did not miss a
single session of the legislature or the
ways and means committee during his
first two terms of office.
So far as his relation to the state
government was concerned, he said, 1
his attitude was the same as that of
Congressman Stevenson to the Federal 1
government. He had always fought to (
keep down useless expenditures. He 1
said that he and Representative Mc- '
Laurin had managed to chop $600,000 '
off the appropriation bill while it was
in free conference during the last gen- (
eral assembly and that Senator Christ- 1
ensen of Heaufort who championed the 1
measures whi<;h the $600,000 would pay 1
for had said that "you (Bradford) are *
one of the toughest puts I have ever 1
tackled."
Defending his record, Mr. Bradford I
said he had voted for the bill to extend
the time for payment of taxes.
There were certain people in Colum- 1
bin, he said, who did not like his work '
as a member of the committee on
printing and who would like to see
the voters of York county leave him at I
home. He had refused to vote to let 1
the contract for the legislative printing 1
for 1923 and 1924 because the bid submitted
by two Columbia printing concerns
was too high. There was no <
reason he said why printing prices for I
state work should not be reduced con- 1
siderably and yet the reductions in the
bids of the two printing concerns
bidding were negligible. In conclusion
he said he believed in economical government
and if returned he would work '
in the future as he has in the past for
the best interests of York county.
Erwin Carothers. ,
Krwin Carothers of Rock Hill, who 11
is seeking re-election to the house,
read figures to show that the people i
in the several school districts in Bcthesda
township, had voted the ma
jority of their taxes on themselves. '
He said that the levy in York county i
for county purposes was among the 1
lowest of the counties in the state and t
that the last legislature had also re- i
duced the state levy. He favored ;
shoving the burden of taxes to prop- t
city other than real and personal, i
Quite a bit of property, especially I
(Continued on Pago Three).
ULU IHAKLtS tUKI
Ruins Are Still Visible Near Town of
Beaufort.
0 \
BUILT BY JEAN RIBAULT IN 1562
Marks Spot on Which Huguenots
Landed?South Carolina Should 8?t
a Memorial to Mark Spot.
CC. L. Wlllet in Charleston News and
Courier.
Around Port Royal, S. C., centers
more early American history than obtains
in any other section of the United
States. The great powers of France
and Spain and England were from
time to time, for. something over 200
years, contending between themselves
for this amazingly fair land. Those
were days full of blood and bitterness.
Spain, noted at that time above all
ather nations for her cruelties, did
some of her most atrocious work on
what is known as St. Helena Island and
if the three or four old forts now in
ruins and situutcd in the section of
Port Royal, S. C., all evidences ' of
these ancient times, were only in
Massachusetts, every one of them
would today be famous through wide
|)ublicity and every one would be as
much or more of a national shrine than
[hose shrines visited so largely each
year at Concord, Lexington and Plymouth.
As a fact, our national hisorians
practically make no mention of
:hcse old landings and these old wars
lown in Beaufort land.
Spanish Land in 1520.
To Ret a true perspective of the.-ie old
ilstorlc days at Port Royal let me cite
:hc following: In 1607 the English effected
a settlement in Virginia; in 1M8
the French settled in Canada; in 1665
Lhc Spaniards laid a foundation in St.
Augustine, Fla., In 1620 the English
anded in Plymouth Now as important
chronologically as were these above
andings, there were three landings In
:h^ Port Royal sewlon that antedated
l11 of the above. In 1520 a Spanish ex|)edition-?-that
of Valasqez de Ayllon?
>n.io,i r\n Hoion.n island and named
it and claimed It for Spain. These
Spanish were the first white men to
and on these Atlantic shores and it
ill happened some fifty years before
the French put in there. In 1625
mother Spanish expedition of 600 men
llso linded on St. Helena Island. The
Spanish did not colonize on St. Heir
fna. They acted simply as slave
drivers, attempting to carry back
American Indians to Spain?the Indian?,
however, dying in transit. But
ilnce they made the first landings Spain
ilalmed this section as her own and for
200 years bloody wars were fought
>ver these lands.
These Spanish reports about St.
Helena reached France and In 1652 a
French Huguenot Protestant party sailed
from France in two ships, Jean Rlbauit
being in command. It was so
lotable a body of nobles and gentleTien
that a French historian said of
them: "They had the means to achieve
jome notable thing and worthy of
?ternal memory." On May 27, 1562, we
find that Ribault anchored in tea
fathoms of water oft what Is known
today as Parris Island, just a few
rnlles from Tort Royal.
What r.ibault Saw.
Let me quote here a charming passage
from Wllilam J. Rivers' "Barly
History of South Carolina," a book
printed in 1856:
"Here on the 27th of May, 1562, he
cast anchor in a depth of ten fathoms
of water, at the opening of a spacious
bay, which from cape to cape was three
leagues wide and forrrted the entrance
to a noble river. The name of Port
itoyal was given to this river on account
of its size and beautiful scenery
around it. The harbor he esteemed
one of the best and fairest in the world
and it was said that the largest ships
of France, 'yes, the argosies of Venice,'
could enter in there.
"Havir.fr moored his vessels, Ribault
and his soldiers went on shore and,
wore equally delighted with the stately
palms, the wide spreading live oaks
and fragrant shrubs. While they walked
though the forest flocks of wild turkey
flew above their heads, and around
they beheld partridges and stags and
imagined that they heard the voices of
divers other sorts of beasts unknown.
On return to the ships, they cast their
nets in the bay and caught fishes in
numbers so wonderful that two
draughts of the net supplied enough
for a day's food for the crews of both
ships."
Builds Charles Fort.
Ribault explored the surrounding
country and discovered what is known
as Broad river and Port Royal river
and he thoroughly explored Parris Island,
now used as a large marine station
by the government. In the name
of his king, Ribault took possession of
n.i? nniintfv'. lift went
back to France to report his great discovery,
but first he built a fort on
Parriti Island on Pilot creek, a large
creek leading into Port Royal river.
This tort was called Charles fort. Remains
of it are in evidence today. He
left in this fort a garrison of twenty*ix
men. Not returning quickly on
account of home wars, the garrison
afterward built a ship with the aid of
the Indians, using Spanish moss and
rosin for caulking it. This was the
first ship constructed in America and
(Continued on Page Two.),